Background*

Ms. Paula H. J. Cholmondeley serves as an Independent Strategy Consultant with Financial Accounting expertise. Ms. Cholmondeley served in number of significant positions with several companies including several managerial positions with Westinghouse Elevator Company and as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President for Blue Cross of Greater Philadelphia from 1986 to 1988. She has occupied management positions in Owens Corning, the Axon Company and Blue Cross Blue ... Shield of Greater Philadelphia. Ms. Cholmondeley served as Vice President and General Manager of Specialty Products of Sappi Fine Paper, North America from April 2000 to December 2003. From January 1998 to April 2000, she was a Private Consultant on Strategic Planning and Mergers and Acquisitions. From 1992 to January 1998, Ms. Cholmondeley held various management positions with Owens Corning, including General Manager of Residential Insulation and Vice President of Business Development and Global Sourcing. Ms. Cholmondeley served in the White House Fellows Organization as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Trade Representative for several countries in the Far East from 1982 to 1983, during the Reagan administration. She was also employed at The Faxon Company. She started her business career as an Auditor with Arthur Andersen & Company in 1971. She serves on the Board of the Villanova Capital Mutual Fund. She has been an Independent Director of Dentsply International Inc. since September 2001 and Albany International Corp., since February 18, 2005. She has been an Independent Director of Terex Corporation since June 2004. Ms. Cholmondeley serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Ardmore Capital, a mutual fund. She serves as Trustee of various portfolios of Nationwide Funds in fund complex. She serves as a Trustee for 97 funds in the fund complex of Gartmore Funds, for which Gartmore Mutual Fund Capital Trust and Gartmore Morley Capital Management, Inc. are the advisers. She serves on Graduate Executive Board of the Wharton School. She served as a Director of Ultralife Corp. (formerly known as Ultralife Batteries Inc.) from June 10, 2004 to June 8, 2010. She served as a Trustee of Aberdeen Funds - Aberdeen Global Financial Services Fund, Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust - Gartmore NVIT Worldwide Leaders Fund and Aberdeen Funds - Aberdeen Technology and Communications Fund since July 2000. She served as a Director of Minerals Technologies Inc since January 26, 2005 until May 14, 2014. She served as a Trustee at Aberdeen Select Equity Fund, Aberdeen Health Sciences Fund and Aberdeen Global Utilities Fund since July 2000. She served as a Director of Armco Inc. since 1996. Ms. Cholmondeley was a Certified Public Accountant (AICPA) and Sarbanes-Oxley 'designated financial expert'. She is an alumnus of Howard University. She holds a BA in Accounting from Howard University and an MS degree in Accounting from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance.

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